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After reading a bit about it, it seems very difficult (impossible?) to get a true random set of numbers. Anyboyd here on HN that has some insight? Are there int
by neals 10y ago
After reading a bit about it, it seems very difficult (impossible?) to get a true random set of numbers. Anyboyd here on HN that has some insight? Are there interesting hardware or random-number-as-a-service things going on?
- ef4 10y agoThere are a lot of people who make hardware random number generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_number_generators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_...
- DanBC 10y agoThey used to be very expensive and of dubious quality. Now they're very cheap, but there's not much point in using them when we have better PRNGs. Some of them are not very good. Here's an old (2000) look at some hardware rngs and how they fail: http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html